From virtual performances to reduced ensemble sizes, local classical music groups present revised 2020-21 seasons.
Deborah Fox
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CLASSICAL | Pegasus Early Music: ‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’
The 17th and 18th centuries were enlivened by some persistent and talented women composers and performers, all of them more or less erased by history until recently. This weekend’s Pegasus Early Music concert features a potpourri of instrumental pieces, songs, and opera excerpts by five such women: Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo, Isabella Leonarda, Julie Pinel, […]
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Pegasus Early Music’s season opener features works for viol
The early string instrument known as the viol (rhymes with “smile”) can frequently be found in Renaissance and Baroque art, usually in the hands of princesses, saints, or angels. For Pegasus Early Music’s September 22 concert “Viol3,” however, three viols will be in the hands of musicians Beiliang Zhu, Lisa Terry, and David Morris.
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Pegasus Early Music stages its first opera, ‘Dido and Aeneas’
In the world of opera, good things often come in large, gaudily wrapped packages. Pegasus Early Music this weekend hopes to prove that small is good, operatically speaking, with a production of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” The opera will run this Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Jewish Community Center’s Hart Theater. “It’s been […]
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Chamber Opera Festival goes for intimate performances
The word “opera” is often preceded by the adjective “grand,” but many operatic pleasures are as intimate as they are rewarding. Exploring the vast repertoire of small-scale and one-act operas has been a specialty of Rochester Lyric Opera for several years, and this weekend’s RLO Chamber Opera Fest will feature a variety of musical goodies. […]
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Virtuoso vespers
Deborah Fox, Pegasus Early Music’s artistic director, says it has long been a dream of hers that the organization perform Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, a work she has loved since she first encountered it a couple of decades or so ago as a lute student. This weekend, Fox’s dream comes true at the Hochstein […]
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Early musick for an eager publick
When Deborah Fox first decided to study lute in Rochester in the 1980’s, she had a tough time of it and ended up studying privately. Fast forward a couple of decades or so, and Deborah Fox is pleasantly surprised to find herself not only a busy professional lutenist, but also the director of a very […]
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A wrinkle in time
Rochester’s newest concert series offers gentle music from a violent age
